The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-21
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


JUDGE TON" HUGHES will return to New
York, and sail for home in about month.
EX-SENATOR FERRY, of Michigan. is thinking
of going to live in Utah, where he owns extern
sive mines
COL FRED GRANT will be only thirty-seve
years old when he is elected Secretary of State
in New York
BosToN Journal: A little girl who wanted to
describe the absent mindedness of her uncle said:
His remember is tired that he las to use his
forget all the time.
LONDON has great problem. It has $780,
600 people unable to get into place OF worship.
In contra! London with 1000 O0O there are only
accommodations for 600. 600.
NoRTiIERN Eaele A poet sent to an editor
contribution entitled, why do 1 live2' The
editor answered, Because you sent your con-
trbution by mail instead of bringing it
JEWISH Messenger: A clergyman on sultry
afternoon paused in his sermon and said: II
saw an advertisement for 500 sleepers for a rail
road. / think Icould supply at least nifty ana
recommend them as good.and sound"
HERBERT J. BROWNE, clerk in the Postofice
Department. will soon publish q small volume
entitled: sis it Shakspeares Confessions The
Cryptogram His Epitaph" Mr. Browne
claims that the famous epitaph on Shakspeare's
tomb at Stratford- on-Avon gives the key Dy
which the cipher can be read
ONLY a few months before his death Michael
Katkoff wrote of France: Away with nation
that does not believe in the Almght nation
incapable of defending itself, and which surren-
ders to enemy in hundreds OF thousands"
PRAYED body" THE present Frenehman is
com posed of nothing but words"
IT is said that Secretary Endicott is very fond
of having his picture taken A photographer
says Mr.. Endicott is one of the best customers
among public men that he has ever known. Mr..
q icc orTar
ures every two three weeks. He Is good
subject for the camera. He poses in dignihed
and striking manner, and looks every inch a
descendant from May flower stock.
COLONEL FREDERICK ID. GRANT was with the
Union army during considerable portion OF
the war of the rebellion, though he was too
young to take hand in the fighting. He ac-
companied his father through the Fort Henry
burg, and the Wilderness and Petersburg cam
paigns The boy was often on the scene of
actual conflict, and was once wounded.
IT is said that DIR. Morel Mackenzie has more
than earned the knichthood conferred upon him
by the Queen for his service in attending the
Crown Prince. He nearly made i'll by his
work on the case, and once whIle he was en-
Gagged in cleaning foul matter from the throat of
his patient the latter, through nervous pain,
bit him savagely in the finger. He feared pois-
oning at first from this bite, but no serious re-
suits have so far developed.
AN Albany gentleman of thoughtless, in
quisite turn of mind few mornings since met
a lady friend who is employed saleslady in
a city store, and noticing her changed appear
ance in countenance asked her il she had been
i'll. She replied that she was never in better
health, and queried If anything In her appear
ance prom pied this question. He replied that he
thought her face Iookeaf thinner than usual
.'Oh," she quickly reioinsd,.I loaned my false
teeth this morning to aJ,1rIepd who was going
to a picnic.
JOE ANDREWS. the San Francisco diamond
collector. wears $15. 900 cluster of diamonds on
his necktie. surrounding a SIS 600 opal He
wears SIS, 600 single diamond his finger,
and in his pocket he carries the finest opal IN the
world, for which he has refused SID, 600. Those
who know him never charge him with vulgarity
in the display of his jewels. he is the only
man of California who, when in official position,
was known to return an unused appropriation to
the treasury, amounting, when he was cornmls-
sioner at New Orleans, to SIT, OO0
LONDON World: Many of his admirers will
be sorry and surprised to hear that the Rev.
Stopford A. Brooke is the REV" no longer. He
has gone through the legal form which enables
him to drop the title 1t is said that Mr. Brooke
wishes to enter Parliament, and rs an ordained
clergyman he is disqualified. At the last cleo
ton he asked to stand as Home-rule candi-
| date for the University of London in opposition
to Sir John Lubbock L: u. but he could not
possible. should his health permit, that he may
| be heard in the House of Commons.
| AT dinner which Mr. Bancroft. the his
| torian gave last week, at Newport, he pro-
| claimed the engagement of his granddaughter
| Miss Suzanne Bancroft, to Frenchman, who
| enjoys the additional advantage of being g
count. Miss Bancroft has been well-kpow fig
| ure in Newport society for some three OF four
| years when she came to live with her grand
! father, after childhood spent in France Her
| plouant speech, with its decided French accent,
| and her natural yivacity, combined to render
| her charming and interesting, and che has had
| appeared upon the scene. The wedding IS an
| nounced to take place il December at Washing
| ton, and WILL very likely, be a grand affair.
A LADY writing from London says ''At a re
| cent festival of the Eisteddfod the Princess O
| Waless three daughters wore dresses of blu'
| silk of the old China shade spotted with white
| Their hats were of crimson straw. velve
| trimmed They have appeared in these gowns
once and again. The Princess. whose taste II
| dress is proverb, wore checked s'lk OF white
| and lilac with bonnet and parasol to match
| The Princess does not dress her daughters in a
| good taste as herself Although the eldest IS de
| cidedly out and the second, Princess Victoria
| has made her appearance on several notable oc
casions. they always rather lndlHerentiy at
| tired. This is more noticeable as the Princes
has them so much with her, but, after ell. it is
| refreshing change from the everywhere preva
| lent tendency to force overdressed young peopl
| forward into the front ranks of their elders"
| LEFT
had a witty repartee
| I'd waited long to say,
Chances I'd had, but not enough
Were round to make-it pay.
At last, the center of group.
AS in talking led it.
The time come for ARK,
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